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1. ANSELM OF CANTERBURY: TEXTS & STUDIES

R.W. Southern, St. Anselm: A Portrait in a Landscape (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990) paperback,

$20. Southern is one of the greatest medieval scholars of this century, and this is probably the definitive
study of Anselm to date. Detailed, thorough, yet lucid and readable.

Brian Davies & Gillian Evans, trans., Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works, Oxford’s World Classics (New

York: Oxford University Press, 1998) paperback, $12. NEW. Superb translation by two leading
medievalists.

G.R. Evans, Anselm, Outstanding Christian Thinker Series (Wilton, CT: Morehouse Publishing, 1989) paperback,

$8. A splendid introductory survey.

G.R. Evans, Anselm and Talking about God (Oxford: Clarendon / Oxford University Press, 1978) hardcover.
Jasper Hopkins, A Companion to the Study of Saint Anselm (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1972).
Benedicta Ward, “Anselm of Canterbury,” Christian Spirituality I: Origins to the Twelfth Century (New York:

Crossroad, 1986), 196-205.

Benedicta Ward, ed., The Prayers and Meditations of Saint Anselm (New York: Penguin Books, 1973) paperback,

$12.

2. ASPECTS OF POPULAR MEDIEVAL SPIRITUALITY

R.N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215-c.1515, Cambridge Medieval Textbooks (New York:

Cambridge University Press, 1995) paperback, $18. This fine study focuses not on church structures like
popes or religious orders, but on the ordinary religiosity of the average medieval layman.

Jacques LeGoff, The Birth of Purgatory, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984)

paperback, $14. A brilliant case-study in the development of Catholic doctrine and spirituality. LeGoff
gives lengthy excerpts from hard-to-find sources—including entertaining examples of medieval visions and
dreams of purgatory. LeGoff claims purgatory was "invented" between 1150 and 1200.

Barbara Abou-El-Haj, The Medieval Cult of the Saints: Formations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

paperback, $25.

Caroline Walker Bynum, Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 (New York: Columbia

University Press, 1995) paperback, $20.

Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: the Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women

(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987) paperback, $13. A path-breaking study.

Caroline Walker Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval

Religion (Cambridge, MA: Zone Books, 1992) paperback, $18.

Giles Constable, The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)

paperback, $25. NEW.

Richard K. Emmerson & Bernard McGinn, ed., The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University

Press, 1992).

Patrick J. Geary, Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995) paperback, $17.
Patrick J. Geary, Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press,

1990) paperback, $13.

Thomas Head, Hagiography and the Cult of the Saints: the Diocese of Orleans, 800-1200 (New York: Cambridge

University Press, 1990).

David Keck, Angels and Angelology in the Middle Ages (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) hardcover, $45.

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Colleen McDannell & Bernhard Lang, Heaven: a History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988) paperback,

$14.

Jaroslav Pelikan, Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture (New Haven: Yale University

Press, 1996) NEW in paperback, $14.

Ellen M. Ross, The Grief of God: Images of the Suffering Jesus in Late Medieval England (New York: Oxford

University Press, 1997) hardcover, $50.

Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi: the Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)

paperback, $22.

Jeffrey Burton Russell, A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997) NEW in

paperback, $15.

André Vauchez, The Laity in the Middle Ages: Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practice (Notre Dame: University

of Notre Dame Press, 1997) paperback, $18. NEW.

Benedicta Ward, Miracles and the Medieval Mind (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1987) paperback, $20.

3. GOTHIC CATHEDRALS

Lindy Grant, Abbot Suger of St.-Denis: Church and State in Early Twelfth-Century France (London: Longmans /

Addison-Wesley, 1998), paperback, $35. NEW. Suger was, in many respects, the inventor of the Gothic
cathedral. This is the first book-length study of his career.

Otto von Simson, The Gothic Cathedral, expanded edition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988; reprint of

1964 edition) paperback, $16. The classic study of the rise of the Gothic style, focusing on Suger’s abbey
church at St. Denis and on the great cathedral of Chartres. He shows that the key feature of Gothic is not
the pointed arch or the flying buttress, but the use of light. Some background in art history is helpful to
appreciate his analyses.

Georges Duby, The Age of the Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 198_)

paperback, $13. A valuable social perspective.

John Fitchen, The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997) paperback, $13.

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Sumner McKnight Crosby, The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis: from Its Beginnings to the Death of Suger, 475-1151

(New Haven: Yale University Press, 199_).

Hans Jantzen, High Gothic: the Classic Cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, Amiens (Princeton: Princeton University

Press, 1984).

Émile Mâle, The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France in the 13th Century (New York: Harper & Row, 1972;

reprint of 1913 edition). A classic, but dated.

E. Panofsky, Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures (Princeton: Princeton University

Press, 1946). Translations of key texts from Suger & commentary by a great art historian.

4. MEDIEVAL MUSIC

Gerald Abraham, ed., The New Oxford History of Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980s- ). The most

thorough and up-to-date study. Two volumes are relevant to this course:

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Vol. 2: Richard L. Crocker & David Hiley, ed., The Early Middle Ages to 1300 and Vol. 3: Ars Nova
and the Renaissance (1300-1540) (Oxford, 1990) The most thorough and up-to-date study.

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Vol. 3: Anselm Hughes & Gerald Abraham, ed., Ars Nova and the Renaissance (1300-1540) (Oxford,
1986).

Denis Arnold, ed., The New Oxford Companion to Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
Gulio Cattin, Music of the Middle Ages I, trans. Steven Botterill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
Donald Jay Grout & Claude V. Palisca, A History of Western Music, 4

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best textbook survey of the history of Western music.

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John Harper, The Forms and Orders of Western Liturgy from the Tenth to the Eighteenth Century: A Historical

Introduction and Guide for Students and Musicians (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).

Richard H. Hoppin, Medieval Music, Norton Introduction to Music History (New York: W.W. Norton, 1978).
Andrew Hughes, Medieval Music: The Sixth Liberal Art (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980).
Stanley Sadie, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, 20 vol., revised ed., (London: Grove, 1995).

The standard reference work.

Performances of Medieval Music: There are a number of fine musical ensembles that offer performances of medieval
music: Joel Cohen & the Boston Camerata; Anonymous 4; the Martin Best Medieval Ensemble; and Sequentia. An
older, but brilliant set of performances is by David Munrow & the Early Music Consort of London; these include:
The Art of Courtly Love (2CDs, Virgin Records, $19), The Art of the Netherlands (2CDs, Virgin Records, $19),
Music of the Crusades (1CD, London Classics, $12), Music of the Gothic Era (1CD, Archiv, $16); and The
Medieval Experience (4CDs, Archiv Records, $25).